Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousand ways that can bring change. Thus the pressure was desperate to complete in a few days the deal for selling 6 million to 9 million metric tons of grain to China. The arrival of the Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last week with a secret letter...
...support of the Panama Canal treaties, SALT II and deficit spending for social programs. He attacks Church's chairmanship of the committee that investigated the CIA and in the process, many believe, seriously damaged the agency. Symms often recalls Church's flattering remarks about President Fidel Castro after visiting Cuba in 1977: "I leave with the impression I've found a friend...
...several months ago, lack of food and oppression by Castro's regime drove the energetic 30-year-old floor-waxer to leave his wife, mother and daughter in Cuba and come to the United States in search of something better...
...Propaganda is Castro's greatest weapon," Rodriguez states. "He uses it to discourage us from leaving. He told us that minorities have no rights here and said the CIA keeps tabs on all leftists...
...estimates that only one quarter of the 8 million persons in Cuba are pro-Castro...